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(No Model.)

E. WAHNER.

STRING FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. No. 542,719. Patented July 16, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMANUEL WAI-INER, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIAJIUNGARY.

STRING FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

\ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 542,719, dated July 16, 1895.

Application filed March 5, 1895. Serial No. 540,674. (No model-l To all 2072 0777, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMANUEL WAHNEE, a citizen of the Empire of Austria-Hungary, and a resident of 28 Lange Gasser, Vienna, Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Strings for Musical Instruments, of which the following is a specification.

The improvements represented in the annexed drawings have for their purpose to attach strings to musical instruments. Hitherto the one end of the string has been slung like a knot, which was to be shoved over the peg. This method, however, involvednot to mention the loss of time and the skill it required-- the great liability of the string to slip from the peg.

By my invention the strings are provided at the end with a grooved hollow stud to be slung, knotted, or in any other manner attached to the string, or else to several wires, cords, laces, threads, small chains, or such like, attached to the string in such a manner that they rest in the groove which forms the periphery of the grooved hollow stud, this latter consisting of one or several parts joined to one grooved hollow stud. The hole of the grooved hollow stud may be covered at one side.

Such a string provided with a grooved hol- L low stud is to be seen in Figures 1 and 2 of the annexed drawings in top view, as well as in lateral view, and the grooved hollow stud separately, by large seale,is shown by Figs. 3 and 4, the latter showing the grooved hollow stud covered at the one end of the hole. Figs. 5 to 8 represent how to apply the strings furnished with grooved hollow studs to the instruments in question-that is, partly the grooved hollow stud open on both its sides, as in Figs. 5 and 7; on the other hand, the one side of the hole covered, Figs. 6 and 8.

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with the string of a musical instrument, of a stud or button provided with a peripheral groove in which the end of the string is secured, said stud being provided with a hollowshank adapted to engage with the hitch pin or peg of the instrument, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

EMANUEL WMINER.

Witnesses:

DEAN B. MASON, HARRY BELMONT. 

